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Pursuing Lower Costs and Greater Access to Proton Therapy

In the next two years, UW Health, the health system associated with the University of Wisconsin, will be the first medical institution worldwide to clinically treat cancer patients sitting upright…
  • October 3, 2022

Ron Rivera, Other Cancer Patients Forced to Fight for Insurance Coverage of Proton Therapy

For many families, cancer is the fight of their lives, but the News4 I-Team found some are having to endure another fight they never expected: getting their treatment covered by…
  • March 16, 2022

7 Trends in Radiation Therapy at ASTRO 2021

Here are 7 hot radiation therapy technology trends discussed in sessions and on the expo floor at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2021 annual meeting. 1. Flash Therapy…
  • December 16, 2021
Congress Passes Bill to Mitigate Medicare Payment Cutshttps://www.medpagetoday.com/practicemanagement/reimbursement/96116

Improving patient access to proton therapy

From New Hampshire to Alabama, more than 20 of the 38 proton therapy centers in the U.S. are scattered across the East coast. Out West, these cutting-edge cancer treatment facilities are…
  • October 7, 2021
Cancer Helped Ron Rivera Find His Voice, Including on the COVID-19 Vaccinehttps://www.si.com/nfl/2021/08/16/mmqb-ron-rivera-covid-vaccines-joe-burrow-brandon-staley
Second cancer risk after primary cancer treatment with three‐dimensional conformal, intensity‐modulated, or proton beam radiation therapyhttps://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.32938
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